08/15/2022 — [Some of this was written by Erik, some of this was written by me] Abstract: In this paper I aim to illustrate, explain, and defend the existence of rational insights; I want to describe what a rational insight is, maybe offer a causal explanation (if there even is one), and…

08/15/2022 — The theory of the private as put forward by Erik and I is the foundation for our philosophy and it not only needs to be defended in its intuitionist formation that has been forward for the entirety of its theoretical existence, but it also needs to be revised in order…

08/09/2022 — Is not to write, once more, to confuse ontology and grammar? — Jacques Derrida, Writing and Difference, p. 78 The problem of the value of truth confronted us — or was it we who confronted it? Which of us here is Oedipus? Which the Sphinx? — Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth…

To everyone… — I have had the best summer I could possibly have. I have more new experiences than I could have ever imagined. I have shed more happy tears than I thought possible. I have felt things I didn’t know I could even feel. I just want to thank everyone. And, I…

1.0: Work on and finish Jackian epistemology 1.1: Finish lining out your theory of justification 1.2: Start lining out your theory of truth 1.2.1: Demonstrate how your theory of truth necessarily follows your solution to the logocentric predicament so no one can disagree with it 1.3: Continue thinking about what…

07/12/2022 I tried to disprove how I feel with logic but this shit’s true.[1] — Brakence, Cavern Music I: The Supposed Logocentric Structure of Reality The first and foremost supposition when it comes to any theory of anything is something “applies” to it in the sense that “something” regulates. Of course, the regulation could be an absence…

07/14/2022 1: Introduction The retreat to epistemic privacy, or “the Private,” is a necessary movement within any sound and valid epistemology. It is necessary because there is a certain categorical circularity that arises when warrants about public propositions come from other public propositions.[1] Because epistemic privacy resits such categorical circularity, any epistemology…

By Evan Jack and Erik Schulz — With Erik and I’s solution to the logocentric predicament comes a worry of relativism. This worry causes great anxiety in me for what would the product of all my efforts be other than everyone being right, which is to say, other than a total trivialism, practically indistinguishable from illogic? What…

The Summer of 2022 — So far, I have carefully laid out the ultimate foundations of first philosophy: non-propositional, non-inferential, epistemically private, genuine reasons for belief that serve as real justification for true beliefs. The issue of finding non-arbitrary, non-circular, and non-infinitely regressive ground to stand on has been an issue I’ve always been trying…